Hose-supporter



Patented Mar. 1,1921.

INVENTOR I WITNESSES:

A TTORNF" UNITE!) STATES PATENT QFElQE.

THOMAS E. HANCOCK, OF SEYMOUR, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE SEYMOUR METAL GCODS COMPANY, OF SEYMOUR, CONNECTICUT. A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

HOSE-SUPPORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

'Zratented lviar. 1 1?}21 Application filed December 9, 1919. Serial No. 343,551.

C 1-) 3 whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, T H MAS F. HANCOCK, a citi en oi the United States, residing at Derby five, Seymour, county of New Haven, State of Connecticut, have invented an Improvement in Hose-Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hose supporters and has for itsobjcct to provide a simple and inexpensive article of this character, especially adapted for women and children, which may be attached to a corset, waist or other garment by means of a safety pin, the special object of the present invention being to provide satisfactory and inexpensive means for attaching the web of the stocking supporter to the safety pin by mechanical means only and without stitching, which is an important item in the cost of hose supporters. By the present invention the cost of the thread, the expense caused by the breakage of needles, and of time consumed by the stitching, and the loss of time in putting in new needles are eliminated, it being of course well understood by those familiar with the art that it is impossible to prevent frequent breakage of the needles, as the operator cannot prevent the needles from frequently striking metallic parts in the operation of stitching.

With these and other objects in view I have devised the novel hose supporter which I will now describe referring to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification and using reference characters to indicate the several parts.

Figure 1 is a view showing in elevation a safety pin, and the upper end of the web of a hose supporter attached thereto;

Fig. 2 a perspective view illustrating the mode of attachment of the web to the pin;

Fig. 3 a section on the line 83 in Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows, and

Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing the pin and the cross bar detached.

The safety pins, which form a part of the present invention, comprise the usual head 10, a head carrying arm 11, a coil 12, and a point arm 13, the pointend of which is adapted to engage the head in the usual manner. The difference between this and ordinary safety pins is that the point carrying arm is provided with a broadly U-shaped bend 14:, this bend being ordinarily known he trade as a hump. 15 denotes the web oi a hose supporter, and 16 the cross bar by which the web is attached to the U-shaped bend of the head carrying arm. The cross bar is blanked out and formed from sheet metal and is provided at its ends with lugs 17 which are clamped tightly about the ends of the U-shaped bend of the head carrying arm, as at 18, and with a plate 19 which is ofiset in parallel relation to the cross bar proper extending over a considerable portion thereof, and is clamped down upon the end of the web to securely attach the web to the cross bar. The position of lugs 17 and plate 19 relative to the cross bar proper before attachment of the cross bar to the pin and the attachment of the web to the cross bar will be readily understood from Fig. 1. The end of the web is placed between the plate and the cross bar proper and then the plate is clamped down upon the web to lock it in place, as clearly shown in Fig. 3.

Having attached the end of the web to the cross bar and the cross bar to the U- shaped bend, the free end of the web is then passed between the cross bar and the side of the U-shaped bend, then upward over and downward over the plate of the cross bar, then between the cross bar and the side of the U-shaped bend again, as clearly shown in Fig. 2, and is then drawn down tightly, as in Figs. 1 and 3.

I thus provide a simple, strong and inexpensive mode of attaching the web to the safety pin. This mode of attachment leaves it practically impossible to detach the web from the safety pin under the ordinary conditions of use and eliminates stitching and the expense and loss of time from breakage of needles, etc, that is unavoidable when the web is secured to the pin by stitching.

Having thus described. my invention, I claim:

1. A hose supporter comprising a safety pin having a broadly U-shaped bend, a web, and a cross bar secured to the bend of the pin and having a plate adapted to be clamped upon the web, the attachment being completed by passing the free end of the web around the cross bar and between the cross bar and the side of the bend.

2. A sheet metal cross bar for hose sup-- porters having at its ends lugs whereby said 10 the cross bar.

bar may be attached to a safety pin, and an offset plate in parallel relation to the bar which is adapted to be clamped upon a Web.

3. hose supporter comprising a safety 7 pin having a broadly U-shaped bend, a web, 7

4. A hose supporter comprising a safety pin having a broadly U-shaped bend, a web, a cross bar having lugs adapted to be clamped about the ends of the bend so as to be slidable thereon, and a plate carried'by 15 the upper portion of the cross bar and adapted to clamp the Web to the cross bar, the free end of the web passing around the cross bar and over the plate and thus insuring the clamping position of the plate on 20 the Web.

THOMAS F. HANCOCK. 

